Generating-tube.



No. 642,479. Patented Ian. 30, I900.

J. B. PENNINGTON.

GENERATING TUBE.

(Application filed May 15, 1899.)- (No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN-B. PENNINGTON, OF RUSSELLVILLE, ARKANSAS.

GENERATING-TUBE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,479, dated January 30, 1900.

I Application filed May 15,1899. Serial No. 716,811. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN B. PENNINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Russellville, in the county of Pope and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Generating-Tubes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to gas-generating tubes; and it consists of the novel construction and arrangement of its parts. In use I have found lint-cotton, raw cotton, or loosely-spun cotton cord the best; but any other soft absorbent through which the oil or gasolene or gas can make its way will answer. By the use of this absorbent material above mentioned I obtain an easy and steady flow of oil, gasolene, or gas and obtain thereby a clear, white, and steady light. The absorbent material takes up and stops all foreign or impure matter in the oil, gasolene, or gas and gives a light which is white and practically without smoke.

My invention is applicable to all kinds of lights or heating apparatus when oil, gasolene, or gas is employed and may be used in all kinds of cooking and heating stoves and in connection with all kinds of illuminatin g-gas, whether produced from coal-oil, gasolene, or other substances. This fibrous matter, in connection with my means for inserting and holding the same in the tube, may be used in any of the tubes through which the oil, gasolene, or gas passes with good results, as Well as in the gas-generating tubes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a hanging lamp. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the gas-generating tube with my invention inserted therein. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a gas-generating tube with a modified form of my invention inserted therein. Fig. t are face views of the disks used. Fig. 5 is aperspective view of a rod for holding looselyspun cotton cord or other like fabric. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a rod, Fig. 5 having a cord of loosely-spun cotton wound around the same.

My invention is described as follows:

1 is the reservoir. 2 is the connecting-tube. 3 is the pipe-frame for holding the generating-tube 4 and lamp 5. 6 is a sleeve and socket for holding the generating-pipe 4C. 7 is a sleeve for holding the receiver 8, in which the gas is blown from the blower 9. The construction of these lamps and of stoves and heaters now in use is so common that it is not necessary to describe them here. only necessary to say that the gas is generally generated in a generating-tube similar to the one shown in Fig. 1. I

My generating-tube may be made somewhat larger than the usual generating-tube and the openingis also larger, so that myinvention may be more easily inserted therein. In order to easily insert the fibrous'matter into the tube, to have the same retained in the position in which I place it, and then to easily withdraw it when desired, I take a piece of spring-wire 10, bent in the shape of the letter U, and string on it three or more perforated disks by passing the wire through twoof the perforations 12 opposite each other and secure them in place by soldering them to the wire or by any other usual method. A disk 13, provided with perforations 12 and slots 14, is then strung on the wire. The free ends of the wire pass through slots 14, one opposite the other. The two ends are then bent outwardlyat right angles, then forward again on a line with the main body of the wires, and then down and up, forming U-shaped bearings 15. One end of the Wire is then turned into an eye 16, so that the hook 17 may be inserted into the eye and my fiber-holding device withdrawn from the tube. These U- shaped bearings bear against the inner face of the tube and hold the device in place, even though the tube sits vertically or at any angle, and in such case such bearings are necessary, because in handling and carrying stoves, heaters, and the like (considering the rough usage to which they are usually submitted) the device and fiber may become slightly displaced; but when the generating-tube sits horizontally these bearings are not necessary, and in that case I use a single wire 18, turning one end 19 at right angles to its body. Then I thread on this wire three or more perforated disks through their central perforations,and then secure them in place by solder ing or other usual means, and then turn the end of the wire into a wire 19 that the device may be easily withdrawn from the tube. I then fill in around these wires and between these disks cotton fiber or other fibrous ma- It is terial and insert the same into the tube. I

sometimes also use a rod 19, as shown in Fig. 5, wrapped with a loosely-woven cord 20, as shown in Fig. 6.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a generating-tube, the fiber-holding device, consisting of the wire 10, bent into the shape of a U the perforated disks 11, threaded on said wire and secured thereon perforated and slotted disk 13 threaded in the free ends of said wire; the U-bearing 15 integral with the wire 10 and eye 16 turned on one end of said Wire, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of a gas-generating tube, a fiber-holding device, consisting of a wire having secured thereon a number of perforated disks adapted to fit the inside of the tube, and to hold between each disk and around the wire, fibrous material, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination of a gas-generating tube, a fiber-holding device inserted in said tube, consisting of a wire 10, bent into the shape of a U the perforated disks 11, threaded on said wire; perforated and slotted disk 13, threaded on the free ends of said wire, lint-cotton packed between said disks, and the whole inserted into said tube substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. PENNINGTON.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. LUEKER, OSCAR II. WILSON. 

